Updating and creating notes on WikEM

Getting Started

Thanks for wanting to help out on WikEM! People are the core of the wiki. Your knowledge translates into improved bedside practice for everyone.

To get started

Download our mobile app (if you haven't already done so)
Create an Account on the website
Read our editing guidelines
Start editing!
- You automatically move up the WikEM editorial levels to become part of our editorial board
- All medical practitioners welcome (e.g. physicians, mid level-providers, nurses, pharmacists, medical students, paramedics)

If you are looking for ways to contribute

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General Guidelines

Keep entries concise yet informative
- Preference is for notes, not chapters (i.e. think Pepid, not UpToDate)
Remember that the most common user format is the smart phone (view it on your phone to see the final format)
Focus on practical knowledge. Describe pathophysiology only when necessary for bedside treatment.
Link to other WikEM pages whenever possible
Reference your sources
- This is particularly important when adding information to established pages or making any kind of claim that is not universally agreed upon by medical practitioners
Feel free to divide notes into several notes, or combine them if it makes them more useful

Creating a New Page

Step by Step

YOU MUST FIRST LOGIN
- See Create an Account
  - You must confirm your email address (check your email account) before the site will give you the ability to make changes.
Search for the term in the search field in the upper right hand corner of the page
- If you find a note with a similar theme, please edit it instead with your new content (see below) rather than making a duplicate page
- If you do not find a page on your subject, click on the link: "Create the page on this wiki!"
  - Use the Boilerplate (Template) function for your type of page (see Templates below)
Please follow formatting guidelines
Put a category at the end of the entry

Using a Boilerplate Page Template

You can auto-generate Boilerplate Templates when creating a new note (click on function at top of new note page)
Contributors are encouraged to update old pages to the current templates, when applicable
Current templates are:

Boilerplate source (for adding new templates) is at MediaWiki:Multiboilerplate

Editing Notes

First search (upper right hand corner; login first) for the note that you want to edit
Once on the relevant page, click on the Edit button in the top right-hand corner to edit the page
- If you do not see the edit button, you are probably not logged in! (login to see it)

Basic Formatting

*Please read the wikipedia tutorial

Text Format

You type: '''Bold'''
- You see: Bold
You type: ''Italics''
- You see: Italics

Headings

==Heading 1==
===Heading 2===
====Heading 3====

Bullet points (Preferred)

*Level 1
- **Level 2
  - ***Level 3
    - ****Level 4

Outline numbers (Less preferred than bullet points; see above)

#Level 1
1. ##Level 2
  1. ###Level 3
    1. ####Level 4

Links to Other Pages

Internal Links

Standard: [[NameOfLinkedToNote]]
Internal link with different label: [[NameOfLinkedToNote|LinkedNote]]

External Links

Standard: http://mediawiki.org
External link with different label: [http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]

References

Footnote Referencing

Add the tags <ref>and </ref>on either side of the journal citation
Place the tag <references/> at the bottom of the article in the Sources Section for auto-generated footnotes
References follow a 1 author AMA style: Spencer J. et al. Physician, heal thyself – but not on your own please. Med Educ. 2005; 89: 548-549.
References should utilize primary literature whenever possible.
Secondary and Tertiary (textbook) sources are permitted however they must be clearly referenced and follow the AMA style guide.

Multiple Footnotes of Same Source

To give a footnote a unique identifier, use <ref name="name">. You can then refer to the same footnote again by using a ref tag with the same name. The text inside the second tag does not matter, because the text already exists in the first reference. You can either copy the whole footnote, or you can use a terminated empty ref tag that looks like this: <ref name="name" />. The quotes are not required (but still correct) if the name contains no embedded spaces. The space before the closing "/" may be omitted.

Citation Needed

Insert the following tag: {{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed|date=MONTH YEAR}}
- MONTH/YEAR = date of citation request inserted

Images

Finding Images

Search at Wikimedia Commons
You can use most images from Wikipedia
Search the web with OPENi-An Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine

To upload an image to WikEM

Log-in
Click on the link Special:Upload which appears under 'Toolbox' in the links on the left
- Please cite the source of the image in the "Summary" section. (source webpage or article if from OPENi-An, website e.g. Wikimedia Commons, etc)
- If not from commonly used source (OPENi-An, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons), please also note the image license, if known (should be Creative Commons or similar)

To insert an image into a page

Within the relevant file insert the following:
- Our standard [[File:Image-file-name.jpg|thumb|Writing that you want on the bottom of the photo]]

Other

To see a list of uploaded images by WikEM users see Special:ListFiles
To direct link to the file without displaying the file use: [['''Media:File.ogg''']]

Tables

Make a table in excel and copy all the cells
Paste it into: https://tableconvert.com/excel-to-mediawiki
Then paste the text into the wiki page you are editing

Redirects

To make a redirect from some search term (e.g. Zofran) to a note (e.g. Ondansteron)

Create a new page for "Zofran" (see above on how to create a new page)
- In the new page type the redirect code (and only the redirect code): #REDIRECT[[DestinationPageName]]
  - Example: #REDIRECT[[Ondansteron]]

Templates in Text (Transposition)

Used to have the same text on multiple pages
- Used frequently in the Differential Diagnosis sections and then placed on the respective pages
To make a template, place {{ symbol around it in the text
- Example: {{Template page name}}
To search for template, use "Template:" before the template page name in the search bar (e.g. "Template:Template page name")
There is a known issue with the template not immediately appearing on edited pages due to catching. Please give it a couple of minutes and it will eventually appear or just make another edit on the page.

Quizzes

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 {Question
 |type="()"}
 + The correct answer.
 || Feedback for correct answer.
 - Distractor.
 || Feedback for distractor.
 - Distractor.
 || Feedback for distractor.
 - Distractor.
 || Feedback for distractor.

Feedback is text which is initially hidden, and then shown to the user when they submit the quiz for correction. Feedback typically serves the purposes of encouragement, explanation, congratulation and commiseration.
Feedback is set with all types by using a double vertical line || immediately after a response.
The pipes beginning the feedback section must be on a new line.
Unlike some other quiz systems, all feedback items are displayed on correction. With other quiz systems, the norm is to display the feedback only for those items which were selected by the user.
To try out the feedback effect, choose a response and click the correction button. The feedback will then appear.